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  1. Place In the Sun: What If Italy Joined the Central Powers?

    And this will lead to interesting times ITTL, rest assured!
  2. Plausibility Check: Post USSR Russia with worlds 3rd biggest economy

    To put them over Japan would require GDP per capita around the 35,000 range. With better luck and leadership is this possible or considered ASB territory?
  3. marathag

    When was the earliest plausible timeframe for electric vehicles to attain relatively widespread use in a major country?

    Chemistry and manufacturing is 40 years out for Ni-Cad batteries, Brass Car era is stuck with heavy Lead Acid and Nickel-Iron, and shunts and rheostats for speed control. Power Tubes still in the future
  4. Better 20th Century for France?

    Better decisions about entry into the Austro-Hungarian/Serbian squabble. Better doctrine for the army pre 1914. The Offense de Outrance was not the best way to use the new weapons. The clues were there in the Russian-Japanese war & the round of Balkan wars. Or even as far back as the Boer...
  5. How would the Incan/Aztec Empire deal with European diseases without a successful European invasion

    Smallpox and other European diseases killed well over 50% of the indigenous population of areas of new world they struck. In North America those diseases brought by the Desoto expedition effectively wiped out pre-Columbian societies in large swath of what is now SE US well before Europeans...
  6. Mechadogzilla

    WI Cortes Conspiracy was put into motion and succeeded?

    For my timeline The Triumph of the House of Orange, I have been reading World Without End by Hugh Thomas, a book detailing the history Spanish Empire under Philip II. In it he discusses a plot lead by Martin Cortes (Son of the conquistador Hernan Cortes) and organized by a group of Economenderos...
  7. What if the Mark 71 8"/55 gun wasn't cancelled?

    St. Paul shot several 104mm "Long Range Bombardment Ammunition" sabots in 1970; the Mk 71 could handle longer caliber shells, so improved sabots would be very feasible. http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNUS_8-55_mk12-15.php
  8. Knightmare

    Place In the Sun: What If Italy Joined the Central Powers?

    Problem is, sooner or later, they're gonna run into the issue most of that area is already claimed by various other powers. In OTL, it's one of the reasons why Japan was somewhat given a free hand in China at Versailles, because well, if they couldn't expand there, their alternatives were pretty...
  9. "Most Interesting Scenario To You" Redux Thread

    The American Revolution fails, with many of its leaders fleeing to France, while the French Revolution is not only successful, but even spreads (or is exported) across Europe, which results in much of the European aristocracy (including King George) fleeing to British North America or Latin...
  10. THeaven

    Photos from Alternate Worlds II (read FAQ first)

    Basically they are movies where Keaton stayed on as Batman and Tim Burton stays on to direct at least a trilogy, and produced the rest if not directing. Apparently according to Toyotter's Instagram account Marlon Wayans was never cut from Batman Returns so yes Batman Strikes seems to be Tim...
  11. Anime and Manga PODs

    What if Funimation's dub of Case Closed had been a success?
  12. Carnivorous Vegetarian

    East first! Europe after a German / CP victory in 1916

    Germany really should have acquired French Polynesia, Reunion, and Martinique for future German holidaymakers.
  13. "If They Want It They Can Have It": Ulster's Tragedy.

    Yes, IIRC NI at this time has 5 clearing banks, the local branches of Bank of Ireland and Allied Irish, which despite operating under Bank of England supervision are controlled by the Dublin HQ’s, then there’s Ulster Bank (NatWest), Northern Bank (Midland) and TSB Northern Ireland. All of whom...
  14. Place In the Sun: What If Italy Joined the Central Powers?

    Mexico will be wrapped up next week. I will get to Russia in due time..... it'll be interesting to see if we get a USSR, and if not, what would take its place. A multipolar world is just as likely as a Cold War; we'll have to see when the time comes.
  15. Alternate 'Battle of Midway': RN instead of USN, what's the result?

    I don't see how the IJN loses any carriers in this scenario, Japanese carriers were very good at dodging torpedos, the Zeros on CAP even lacking coordination would just rip apart the RN Torpedo squadrons
  16. Better 20th Century for France?

    “Better at what?” is the question. Some people would say a total Communist takeover would be the best, some would say a restoration of the Bourbons and restoration of Catholicism and endangered local languages would be best, others would favor trying to get to OTL 2021 France but without...
  17. "If They Want It They Can Have It": Ulster's Tragedy.

    Did you ever bump into Irish Army/Gardaí or did you manage to avoid them? The Chieftain did a bit of an incident around this period that had the SAS patrol missing a check in, so a second unit was sent to find them, got stopped and hadn’t even bothered to hide their weapons before the...
  18. BELFAST

    "If They Want It They Can Have It": Ulster's Tragedy.

    Indeed and without coal imports from Britain, the power grid goes down and people start running out of coal to heat their houses etc. Street lights go out and Northern Ireland is plunged into darkness at night. Same for oil, petrol etc and then road transport shuts down. This makes the mouse...
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